Machine for punching and marking buttoned-shoe uppers



.l. L. TREHARN.

MACHINE FOR PUNCHING AND MARKING BUTTONED SHOE UPPERS.

- APPLICATION FILED JULY 25,1915- Patented Aug. 22, 1916.

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INVENTEIFQI WITNESSES 1!. L. TREHARN. I MACHINE FOR PUNCHING AND MARKING BUTTONED SHOE UPPERS.

APPLICATION HLED JULY 26, 1915.

' Patented Aug. 22, 1916. Y

WITNEEEES'I INVENTEIRI 4 W MW? ATTEIFQNEY,

55 sertion of the shoe-upper that to bepro- JOSEPH LOTT TREH'ARN, O'FNORWOOD, OHIO.

MACHINE FOR PUNCI-IING AND MARKING BUTToNEn-sHoE UrPERs.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH Lo'r'r TRE- HARN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Norwood, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful-Improvement in Machines for Punching and Marking Buttoned-Shoe Uppers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines adapted for use primarily in connection with buttoned-shoes and, more especially, to devices for punching a series of small holes along the inner or upper edge of the top or lapping fly of the shoe-upper to locate the start- I 1ng point'or' eye of the respective buttonholes therein, and, also, in simply marking or impressing, but not punching, the inner edge of the lower-fly of the shoe-upper to coincide or register with said punched holes in the t0p-fiy for 'use in forming or impressing guide-marksby which to readily and accurately fasten the buttons in place for the subsequent proper closing and fastening of the top-fly on the lower-fly when the shoe is on the foot of the wearer.

The invention relates, also, tothe use of the device in connection with foxings an tips adapted to all kinds of shoes.

The object of the invention herein is to provide means to facilitate the above-named operation, the details of structure of the de-' vice being hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying several sheets of drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view ofthe machine showing its upper cross-head or beam broken open and in section for permitting a better view of the spring-ten sion ends of the needle-carrier spindles; Fig. 2, a'friagmentary front elevation of the left-hand end of the machine shown in-Flg.

1 Fig. 3, a plan view of the spring-tension needle-carrier-spindles part of the machine, including the carrier-beam and, also, the indented or notched plate used in setting or adjusting thesaid spindles in their desired relation along said beam for securing the proper curvature or line that the series of holes and guide-marks are to assume in the upper and lower flies of the shoe-upper; Fig. 4, a transverse section taken across the center of the machine along one of the spring-tension needle-carrier spindles, the device being in position ready for the in- Spec ification of Letters Patent. 1

Patented Aug. 22, 1916.

Application filed July 26, 1915. SeriaLNo. 41,988;

vided with the holes and guide-marks there- 1n; F g. 5, a plan view of the machine table, showing the needle-carrier spindles without their tension-springs, together with the detachable plate used-inconnection with the shoe-upperand adapted to either a right or a left shoe-upper; Fig. 6, a plan view, partly broken away, showing the manner in which my device is adapted to punch or perforate foxing of different outlines; Fig. 7 a plan vlew showing a shoe-tip blank with a series of holes or perforations that are .adapted to be made in my machineon any line of curvature that is suited to the inner or upper line of the said shoe-tip blank; and Fig. 8, a fore-edge elevation of the table seen in Fig.'5.-

1 indicates the table of the machine supported by a base 2 and the latter, in turn, by the corner-legs 3. Table 1 is shouldered, as shown at 4, at its opposite ends to travel in guide-ways 5, the latter being duly secured to the top of the base 2, as best shown 'in Fig. 1 but also shown in Figs. 2 and 4:.

The shouldered-table is also shown in Fig. 5 but with the guide-ways omitted. A handle 6 is provided at the middle of the fore-edge of the table 1 for manipulating it to and from adjusted-position on the base 2 so as to provide for a nicety of adjustment in connection with the other operating mechanism of the machine. 7

7 indicates a cross-head or beam having cylindrical opposite ends 8 that slidinglyengage the upright pillars 9 at the opposite ends of. the base 2. v

V 10, indicates a pitman located at the opposite ends of the machine and connected at its upper end 11 with a wrist-pin 12, the latter projecting from the side of the cylindrical end 8 of the beam 7 and the lower end of said pitman 10 developing into a split-yoke 13 that is eccentrically-connected to a driving-shaft 14:. The two pitmen 10 when in action serve to reciprocally move the beam 8 in a vertical path above the table 1. j a

The beam 7 has a widened base 15 that has a shouldered countersunk portion 16, under which latter a series of spindles or heads 17, square in cross-section, is arranged in parallel, horizontal array, a lower plate or bar 18 being detachably-secured to the bottom face of the widened part 15 of the beam and adapted to support said spindles 17 in their desired relation, that is, with their and plate fore ends extending in true alinement if required, or in a curved, or in an irregular line, out of alinement, as the case may be and to suit the outline or curvature of the fly portions of the shoe-upper that are to contain the button-fastening devices.

Puncturing needles or pins 19 project outwardly from the fore ends of said spindles 17, and gains or notches 20 provided in the fore-edge of the plate 18, such foreedge of the plate 18 being of a curvature or outline to suit that of the fly portion of the shoe-upper and said gains or notches 20 being adapted for use in setting'or arranging the series of spindles17 to correspond in outline or curvature array to suit the course that they are to take in their vertical movement in the machine when puncturing and guide-marking the two flies of the shoeupper. When it is desired to change the outline or curvature array of the needles 19 j the plate 18 is replaced by another one having a series of gains or notches in its foreedge arranged in the outline or curvature to suit.

The rear ends 21 of the spindles 17 are circular in cross-section and are each firmly v apart along the shoe-upper.

Spiral springs 29 are provided on the rear portions of the spindle-ends 21 with their fore ends contacting with the blocks 22and their rear ends contacting with adjustable and detachable collars 30,, the latter being secured in place; by means of set screws 31 at points along the said rear ends of the spindles 21 which arevariable and correspond to: the line of curvature that the fore ends of the spindles 1.7 take inthe use of the machine, as best shown in Fig. 3. The springs 29,.when the set-screws 23 have been loosenedjautomatically serve, to bring the fore, needle-armed endsof the spindle oriheadsl7 in straight alinement or array ready for the adjustment 7 of the series. of spindles to suit. the line of curvature or irregular, line,. as the; case may be, ..for the purpose that the needles are to be put. to in'the operation ofthe machine. Thesetscrews 31 in the'collars 30 are also loosened on the spindle-ends-21 and the collars re-set on said spindle-ends against the springs 29 when the fore en ds of'the spindle 17' have been-duly set with their needles or pins 19 in engagement with the bottoms of the gains or notches 20 in the fore edge of the plate 18 and then said set-screws 31 are again 1 tightened. (In Fig. 3 I have shown the setscrews 31 as projecting upwardly,.while'in Fig. 4: I have shown them as projecting downwardly, both views in those respects. 7.

not coinciding, but it is immaterial whether set-screws 31 project upwardly or downwardly, or sidewise, unless it be, in the latter case, that such set-screws are in the way of each other.)

A resilient stripper-plate 32 is provided on the bottom of each spindle or head 17 as best shown in Fig. 4:, and the fore end of said stripper-plate is spaced away free from contact with the plate 18 and is further per-' forated for the passage therethroughof the needle 19, the latter passing through the upper-fly 33 of the shoe-upper, 34 thatis placed on the series of stripper-plates 32, and then the needles 19 pass'ondownwardlythrough the perforations in said stripper-plate 32, which latter gives to some extent when the beam is lowered and'the contact with the outer-face of the lowerfly of the said shoe-upper that rests on the supporting-plate 34 the latter being secured at one end 35 to the upper-face of the table 1 and being adapted to project horizontally-parallel above said upper-face of the table 1 from near either end thereof .so as to accommodate therights and lefts of thepairs of shoe uppers. The fastening screws 36 engage holes 37 in said upper face of the table 1 at either end thereof-as best shown in Fig. 5. The body of the shoeupper passes beneath'theplate 34? when the shoe-upper is in place for the perforating and guide-marking operations. The plate 3 1 thus prevents the needles 19 pressing into said body portion of the shoe-upper if,

by chance, they should pass throughthe lower-fly of said shoe-upper, but it isthe intention that the needles shall simply make aguide impression on the outer face of said lower-fly so asto indicate where the buttons are tobe fastened to'coincide with the holes made in the upper-fly to form the eye-ends of the button holes in said upper-fly.

" In Fig.6 I have shown an ordinary form of foxing 38 that has an inner curvature 39,

along which latter a series of holes 40 is punched for'the attachment of the shoe-but- ,7

tons, the said holes 40. coinciding, of course, with those in the shoe-upper '34, in connection with which latter the foxing is usedin the ordinary way. The line of curvature 39 may be varied tocorrespond to that of the line of the series 40 of button-holes, and 333 the needle-carrying spindles-17 are adapted to be adjusted solthattheir needles;l9 can I" have-{not shown said needle-carrying spindles in connection with the foxin'g in Fig. 6, but it can be readily understood how the spindles can be arranged so that the line of curvature in the arrangement of their needles can be made to correspond to that along the curvamachine are adapted to be adjusted so that their needles 19 can be arranged in the desired line of curvature to suit that of the line of curvature of the edge 42 and the series of holes 43 along the upper part of the shoe-tip. I have shown the relation of said needle-carrying spindles 17 in connection with the said shoe-tip blank in Fig. 7, to bring more clearly to view the adaptation of said spindles to the desired curvature of the inner edge of the shoe-tip.

I claim 1. In a device of the character described, the combination of a base, a table adapted to be set in adjusted position on said base, a shoe-upper supporting-plate detachably secured in spaced-relation on the upper-face of said table, a cross-head or beam reciprocally-mounted on said base and adapted to be moved to and from vertically-spaced relation with said upper-face of the table, a series of horizontally disposed needle-armed spindles adjustably and detachably mounted along thebottom-face of said cross-head and adapted to be held in varied relation both sidewise and lengthwise to suit the line of curvature as well as the spacing apart of the buttons and the button-holes along the lapped upper and lower flies of a shoe-upper, and a plate removably secured on the cross-head beneath said spindles and having gains or notches along its fore-edge to seat the needles in the spindles when setting the latter in the alinement they are to assume for use.

2. In a device or machine of the character described, the combination of a base, a table or platen adjustably secured on said base and having a detachable shoe-upper supporting-plate mounted in spaced relation thereon, a cross-head or beam reciprocallymounted for action on said base in relation with said table, a series of needle-armed spindles adjustably and detachably mounted along the lower face of said beam and adapted to puncture and guide-mark the upper and lower flies of the shoe-upper, a detachable-plate having along its fore-edge a series of gains or notches to seat the needles of said spindles to suit the line of curvature and the spacing apart that the buttons and button-holes shall assume in the lapped-flies of the shoe-upper, springs having tension-adjusting collars mounted at the rear ends of the spindles whereby said spindles can be readily returned to true alinement of their fore ends previous to the alinement they are to assume in use, and a resilient stripper-plate attached at its rear end to the bottom of each spindle-head and having a perforation at its fore end for the passage therethrough of the needle in the spindle whereby the upper-fly of the shoeupper is perforated and then the lower-fly guide-marked or impressed for the making of the button-holes and the attachment of the buttons, respectively.

JOSEPH LOTT TREHARN. Witnesses:

JOHN ELIAS JONES, BERL B. RIGDON.

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